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Critique of Big History in Harari’s “Sapiens,” Part 3.5
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Where Harari contradicts his own anti-egalitarianism
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Two conceptions of desire: Harari vs. Deleuze & Guattari
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Understanding the “direction of history:” How Harari overlooks social forms
Taking another look at the problem of historical contingency.
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Was money “a purely mental revolution”? Harari’s idealism of economic concepts
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Mar 21, 2024•
Does the “mythical glue” hold?
Trying to make sense of Harari’s concept of imagined order.
Mar 15, 2024•
“Unremarkable genes:” Does Harari dabble in eugenics?
On the antiegalitarian nature of Harari’s gene-centric worldview in “Sapiens”
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Prozac and Nietzsche in Harari’s “Sapiens:” Evolutionary psychology against the revolution
How Harari makes reductive and mutually incompatible counterrevolutionary arguments.
Mar 1, 2024•
How Harari reinforces the traditional Great Men Theory of History.
Feb 22, 2024•
“Noble lies” about humankind: Harari and the legacy of intellectual elitism
How Harari’s “Sapiens” supports Plato’s “noble lie.”
Feb 15, 2024•
The specter of Marx is haunting Harari
Why does Harari make a strawman of Marx’s theory?
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Contingency, Causality, and Chaos: Toward a Critique of Harari’s “Sapiens”
Critique of Big History in Harari’s “Sapiens,” 1.1
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